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Game News Obsidian teasing game reveal at The Game Awards

Belegarsson

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Since it's unlikely for Microsoft to allow them to make isometric RPGs in the future, I hope this Cainyarsky project is isometric so it would be a perfect send off to their independent legacy.
 

Shilandra

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People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.
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jdinatale

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Everything we know.

  • Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are leads in development.

  • Obsidian were hiring for people experienced in shooters and Unreal Engine 4. The game sounds like a AAA FPS RPG to be made on consoles and PC to me.

  • Published by Take Two, so quite possibly Obsidian's last multiplatform game. They have been bought by Microsoft for those who didn't know.

  • They trademarked 'The Outer Worlds' and Sci-Fi was used to describe it.

  • It is not Fallout or Arcanum related, but it "would appeal to those types of gamers."

  • on Obsidian's website, there are two ads for fake companies that looks like they relate to the game. They give off a retro sci-fi feel to me, personally.
 
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Not to be that guy, but those two images already have more flavour than the entire setting of the PoE franchise.
Setting the bar low.

I don't want to hate on PoE. I even liked the second more than I expected (and definitely more than the first), but the setting wasn't exactly their strong point.
If anything I always found vaguely perplexing that the whole "With crowdfunding we are now independent from publishers and can have complete creative freedom" turned into "Here's this messy, unimaginative and pretentious D&D derivative".
 

Diggfinger

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YES!!!
I believe in the Lord Our Savior and his son Jesus Christ...
this is a miracle...

Look at those fucking adds, 100% Boyarsky style!

'Outer World' add
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Older Boyarsky work
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Plus, announcement is day after my birthday :happytrollboy: perfect timing:love:
 

Jigawatt

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People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.
393_Faceting_and_Radarchart.png

Radar charts are a horrific way to show any data because the most visually dominant part - the area of the polygon - conveys no meaning at all and usually just serves to mislead

edit: oh yeah, something something Obsidian game something very low expectations etc.
 

aratuk

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"Well, this isn't quite a big enough deal to be released on our main label alongside the likes of Bioshock and XCOM, so we're putting you with our Kerbal Space Program team."

—Oh, okay, cool. What all have they done?—

"I just said. Kerbal Space Program."

—Awesome. Well, it looks like I'm running late for a meeting in Redmond. Let's pick this up later. Could I have a tissue? Thanks.—
 
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People shouldn't be to worried about the shapes comments I think. They aren't that incompatible with traditional number interfaces and can work well with them. Radar charts aren't that bad for one example.
393_Faceting_and_Radarchart.png

I've never seen a game fine tuned enough for it to mean anything. If they aren't substantially different in-game then it's a gimmick
 

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